Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; Part I. Early Pyrrhonism: 1. Scepticism, tranquillity and virtue; 2. Timon's polemics; Part II. Epicureanism: 3. Physics; 4. Epistemology; 5. Ethics; Part III. Stoicism: 6. The philosophical curriculum; 7. Ontology logic and semantics; 8. Epistemology (stoics and academics); 9. Physics; 10. Ethics; Part IV. The Academics: 11. Methodology; 12. Living without opinions; 13. Contributions to philosophical debates; 14. The Pyrrhonist revival; 15. Why to suspend judgement; 16. How to suspend judgement; Bibliography.

Promotional Information

Presents the same texts (with additional passages) as Volume 1. Includes detailed notes on the more difficult texts, and a large annotated bibliography.

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'... the Long and Sedley collection The Hellenistic Philosophers, now complete with the second volume ... which includes the Greek and Latin texts briefly annotated and a huge bibliographie raisonnee of 655 items ... will shape the study of ancient philosophy for at least the next generation. I cannot imagine what reader of Phronesis would not find life without it inconceivable.' Phronesis '... the Long and Sedley collection The Hellenistic Philosophers, now complete with the second volume ... will shape the study of ancient philosophy for at least the next generation'. Phronesis